Collection: Clive James

Clive James was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1939 and has lived in the United Kingdom since the 1960s. He is the author of numerous volumes of literary criticism, poetry, and memoir and over the course of his career has at various times hosted several successful television and radio programs. Among his most recent works are a translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy and the poetry collection Sentenced to Life.
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